How to Use northwestern in a Sentence

northwestern

adjective

• Tiger sharks are found around the northwestern islands of Hawaii.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 15 May 2023
• The lake is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Newry, in northwestern Maine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The ridge is pushing hot and dry air over much of the northwestern and north-central United States.
  — Nathaniel Rosenberg, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
• Forecasters have also added a risk for storms on Wednesday for the northwestern part of the state.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 13 Feb. 2023
• Clouds will begin to thicken overnight and there’s a slight chance of nighttime rain in the northwestern corner of the state and along the northern beaches.
  — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2023
• An incident led to the death of a newborn bison calf in northwestern Wyoming.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The parking spots will be on six acres at 75 Cultural Park Place, in the northwestern corner of the property.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The rain — a couple of months’ worth for the northwestern Nevada desert — led festival organizers to close the gates in and out of Black Rock City.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Wells-Cage grew up in a slice of northwestern Milwaukee where 95% of residents are Black.
  — USA Today, 7 June 2023
• While Emma would go on to become known in their corner of northwestern Long Island for her grand soirees, tonight’s party would be one for the books.
  — Beatrice Hazlehurst, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
• Joseph was studying law in Myanmar’s northwestern city of Sagaing when the military’s 2021 coup plunged the country into war.
  — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
• District 56 includes northwestern Warren County and the cities of Lebanon and Mason.
  — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Just months later in May, his successor Maher al-Agal was killed in a drone strike in northwestern Syria.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Sikhs make up less than two per cent of the population of India, but are a majority in the northwestern state of Punjab.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
• The body of another migrant from the western state of Jalisco will be sent to the northwestern state of Sinaloa as requested by family.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Spring bag limits in the north-central and northwestern regions of Kansas decreased from two turkeys to one starting in 2024.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
• It is made up of southern and western portions of Dane County, and parts of northwestern Green and southeastern Iowa counties.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2024
• The storm is projected to drop up to a tenth of an inch of rain everywhere but the northwestern coastal portions of San Luis Obispo county, which could see up to a quarter of an inch.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Zaluzhny said the attacks were launched from the Caspian Sea and from the Murmansk region in northwestern Russia.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• At least 15 people had died a month before in another boat mishap in northwestern Sokoto State.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• The sport rapidly caught on in northwestern Pakistan’s Afghan refugee camps, which were primarily home to Pashtuns.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• The fear from a week of unrelenting earthquakes is palpable throughout the northwestern city of Herat in Afghanistan.
  — Yaqoob Akbary Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Thousands were dispatched to three labor camps in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu.
  — Han Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2023
• The work will involve removal of invasive species, planting native species and trees and cleaning up along the Santa Ana River, which borders the northwestern edge of the park.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Volodymyr, a driver from the Volyn region of northwestern Ukraine who asked that only his first name be used given the heated emotions around the issue, has been waiting to cross the border for 14 days.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Then, the eclipse will reach northwestern Vermont, including Burlington, at 2:14 p.m. ET.
  — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Palaces, peacocks, tigers, and jewels: few places have the power to bewitch children quite like Rajasthan, in northwestern India.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
• Many have since retired, but some, like Campo Lindo Farms in northwestern Missouri, are still menu staples.
  — Alison Booth, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• The northwestern portion of Maricopa County – home to the state’s most populous city of Phoenix – was under a dust storm warning late Thursday.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Pakistan could now be heading into a new such cycle of violence, residents in the northwestern part of the country fear.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024